ALEX KEALY & KATE GARNER – INSIDE THE DIPLOMATIC BAG
Joining Tom Jackson – recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown – to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian ALEX KEALY and musician KATE GARNER. In an episode littered with aliases, we meet Tompy, Wifey, Ex-Wifey, Bimbo Clive-Barclay and Pottle. We hear memories of Chas Hodges, exploding televisions, Mapp and Lucia and chain letters. Wish you were here?
Cattolica, Italy, 1962: “I am having a lovely time here and the weather is wonderful. The food is quite nice but they dish up soup appearing like grated rice in vinegar.”Seefeld, Tirol, Austria: “We are using the water heater for a cup of coffee at the moment and then intend to have an early night.”Kate’s postcard from her father, Chas Hodges, with his own version of Uncle Tom Cobbley.Alex’s card of Q and James Bond. A thank-you card from his friend Alice (AKA Wifey) who acted as a temporary mentor for him at university. “Dear Hubs…” Alex’s follow-up card of a Parisian pleasure-garden, also from Alice (now AKA Ex-Wifey). Alex’s postcard – with blu-tack – of Double Portrait of the Artist in Time by Helen Lundeberg. Another Blu-Tack memory of Alex’s: the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, bought at the airport.Ambleside, Cumbria, 1980: “The caravan is super, it has a lounge, breakfast room, 3 bedrooms & the breakfast department can be a bedroom, toilet & kitchen department.”A Fonoscope musical postcard of Piccadilly Circus.